Music is Revolution CD

MUSIC IS REVOLUTION is a 72 minute spoken word audio CD that tells the history of the radical politics of the late 1960’s. The CD was compiled from original source material in the archives of the John and Leni Sinclair library at the Bently Historical Library in Ann Arbor Michigan. It was edited from over 50 hours of taped conversations and interviews. Included is the infamous Weather Report and Declaration of War by Bernadine Dohrn, a jailhouse interview with Black Panther founder Bobby Seale, Zenta ramblings by MC5 announcer and spiritual leader J.C. Crawford, The Up on health food and Yin-Yang, WABX air-aces, Joseph Jarman of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and many others?. There are also meetings of the White Panther Party and Rainbow People’s Party Central Planning committee. The CD charts the turbulent mixture of culture and politics in the late 1960’s in spoken history. There is also a 20 page photo booklet included with many excerpts from the visual and written material in the Bently Sinclair archive library. Lots of Gary Grimshaw artwork, MC5 photos, and early MC5 rock flyer-art, rants and excerpts from underground newspapers. Published in an edition of 800 copies, a few last remaining copies sealed in original shrinkwrap, as new.

MUSIC IS REVOLUTION– TRACK LISTINGS and IDENTITY 1 “Learning the Language” (WPP Central Committee Meetings, c. Fall 1968, but probably later) [Voices: Pun Plamondon, Gary Grimshaw] :25 2 “How To Set Up a Chapter” [Voices: Skip Taube, John Sinclair] :1:31 3 “Music Is a Revolutionary Force” [Voices: Jesse Crawford, Pun Plamondon, Bob Rudnick, John Sinclair, David Sinclair, Gary Grimshaw, Genie Plamondon] 3:36 4 “Culture & Politics” [Same Voices] 7:36 5 “The Connecting Link” [Same Voices] 1:28 6 “Black Panthers & White Panthers” [Same Voices] 2:55 7 “Tit for Tat” [Same Voices] :30 8 “The Poem for Warner Stringfellow” (John Sinclair, UM-Dearborn, 1967?) 6:24 9 “Living in the Woods” (Pun Plamondon, c. 1970) 3:34 10 “Youth International Party” (Genie Plamondon in Stockholm, c. 1970) :42 11 “The Sun – Alternative Newspaper” (WXYZ-TV News Report, c. 1969) 1:44 12 “A Lot of Shit Is Going Down” (John & Leni Sinclair, in automobile, c. 1968) 1:23 13 “The Music Scene Is Happening” (John Sinclair, telephone interview with Russ Gibb on WKNR-FM, c. 1968) 1:51 14 “Report from the Road” (John Sinclair WABX c.1968) :33 15 SRC at Silverbell Hideout Radio Spot (c. 1968) :39 16 “Grand Funk” (Dan Carlyle and Frank Bach on WABX, c. 1970) 2:06 17″Yin & Yang” ( Same as above WABX c.1970) 1:02 18 “Great Black Music” (Joseph Jarman and David Fenton, c. 1970) 5:04 19 “Bad Vibrations” (Youth & Drugs Seminar, Hill Auditorium) [Voice: unidentified] :50 20 “Plans for the Summer” (Gary Grimshaw, David & Leni Sinclair, Interview with Jesse Crawford on WKNR-FM, c. 1970) 5:37 21 “Weather Report” (Bernadine Dohrn, c. 1970) 4:10 22 “Letter in Exile” (Pun Plamondon & David Sinclair, c. 1970) 2:05 23 “Media Phenomenon in Michigan” (Rainbow People’s Party Central Committee Meeting, December 1971) [Voices: John Sinclair, David Sinclair] 1:23 24 “This Just Clears Your Head Up” (RPP Central Committee Meeting, December 7, 1971) [Voices: Leni Sinclair, David Sinclair, Pun Plamondon, John Sinclair, Genie Plamondon] 1:26 25 “On the Women’s Movement” (RPP) [Voices: David Sinclair, Anne Lavasseur, Genie Plamondon] 1:21 26 “I Wanna Freakize ‘Em” (RPP, Winter 1971) [Voices: John Sinclair, Leni Sinclair] 1:01 27 “Prison Interview” (Bobby Seale, c. 1970) 5:47 28 Interview with The Up [Voices: Frank Bach, Bob Rasmussen, Gary Rasmussen, interviewed by Anne Lavasseur for People’s Communications Committee, Ann Arbor, c. 1970] :44 29 “Observing John” (Peter Werbe on John Sinclair, c. 1969=70) 1:33 30 “Zenta Philosophy” (Jesse Crawford c.1969?) 1:49

“It’s dicey and questionable whether those raised on the theatrical spoken word CDs of Jello Biafra and Henry Rollins will appreciate 72 minutes of former white radicals from the Midwest sitting around in a cloud of reefer smoke talking “revolutionary politics, revolutionary culture and the Revolution” — Mike Mosher, review from “Bad Subjects”

$ 29.99